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Definition of Dispassionate
1. Adjective. Unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice. "A journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact"
Definition of Dispassionate
1. a. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Definition of Dispassionate
1. Adjective. not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dispassionate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispassionate
Literary usage of Dispassionate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"Dispassionate is taken negatively, it marks merely the absence of passion ...
Those who are prone to be passionate must learn to be dispassionate; ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... and dispassionate Examen of the Headings and Interpretations of (he several
Editors. Comprised in a Series of Notes, Sixteen Hundred in Number, ..."
3. Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1870)
"Washington's Dispassionate Opinion. ]]T was under gloomy auspices, a divided
cabinet, an increasing exasperation of parties, a suspicion of monarchical ..."
4. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1892)
"My desire is to learn from dispassionate men, who have a knowledge of the subject,
... dispassionate."
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